Quote Originally Posted by minimoke View Post
I am still at a loss with the reasoning.
I assume it is caused by internal rumblings with week after week of internal polling showing them below 5% and making no progress in grabbing media headlines. Went from 14 to 8 MPs last election due to Labour's success and the more popular Labour is the less The Greens get and vice versa. They know this and know they need to differentiate or die.
So they are trying to get any publicity they can get about doing what they said they'd do and this is an example of something they constantly criticised in opposition.

They are in a hopeless situation really with this coalition setup. Winston sure knew what he was doing there !!